Decide if this is separate or part of Reading/Writing

1. What are the skills and strategies students need to know?
2. How do we assess?

Skills
Strategies
How do we assess?
K-2



3-5



6-8




1. Define the term.
2. What are the teaching methods teachers need/can use to teach?
3. What other terms need to be included?

Definition/Rationale for an area of focus
Teaching Methods
Resources
Visual Literacy - Julie and Kate
-literacy is reading and writing information
-information literacy is more than communicating with words, it also includes visual elements such as diagrams, graphs, maps and tables
-many visual texts are complex, multilayered texts
-visual texts communicate certain information more clearly than verbal texts
-visual texts are widely used in electronic media
-visual literacy is a life skill
Reading and Writing
-simple diagrams such as picture glossaries and scale diagrams
-analytic diagrams such as cutaways and cross sections
-synthetic diagrams such as flow diagrams
-graphs such as bar, column and line graphs
-time lines
-maps
-tables
-graphic design
"I See What You Mean" by Steve Moline

http://k-8visual.info/

Nonfiction Mentor Texts by Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli

"Visual Literacy Learn to See, See to Learn" by Lynell Burmark
Oral Communication - Julie and Kate
Fountas and Pinnell define this as:
1. Listening and Speaking (Listening and Understanding, Social Interaction, Extended Discussion, Content)
2. Presentation (Voice, Conventions, Organization, Word Choice, Ideas and Content, Media)
3. Technology (Gathering information/Research, Publishing)

"The Continuum of Literacy Learning" by Fountas and Pinnell
Written Communication - Julie and Kate


"The Continuum of Literacy Learning" by Fountas and Pinnell